Xu Jiayin is called "desperate Saburo". He often goes home to sleep at three or four in the morning, gets up and goes to the company after a short sleep. This is a habit he has developed for many years. Xu Jiayin's desperation has affected many Evergrande people, and a large number of them, especially the middle and senior management of the company, are workaholics.
On his first day in office, Xia Haijun, president of Evergrande, was dragged to a meeting by Xu Jiayin until 1 1 half past one. Of course, this is just an accident, because under normal circumstances, Evergrande's meetings usually don't end until two or three in the morning.
Xu Jiayin once thought about whether to keep working hard, but there is no solution to this problem. Struggle is his normal state.
On June 5438+February, 2009, an all-Japanese hot spring design of a building in Tianjin was released, and several Japanese designers reported their work to him from 1 1 until 4 am. In an interview with Du Nan Weekly, he couldn't help asking himself: "At my age, as the boss of such a big enterprise, is it necessary to work so hard?"
Du Nan Weekly once asked Xu Jiayin to talk about the "richest man mentality". Xu Jiayin talked about some details. "I don't have the habit of spending money indiscriminately. I often eat lunch boxes in the office. Often have meetings in the middle of the night, and stay up all night as soon as they start. If I am really hungry, let my family send me a steamed bun, or bring me soup and noodles. "
Li Ka-shing works 16- 17 hours a day. He said that he had actually lived 100 years. "I will read at night. If I have an hour, I will still read even if I don't get enough sleep or stay up late. "
Li Ka-shing has kept two habits since he started his business: First, he must read books before going to bed, and he will focus on non-professional books. If it is related to the company's major, even if it is ugly, he will finish reading it; Second, you must watch English TV for more than ten or twenty minutes after dinner, not only to watch it, but also to speak loudly, for fear of falling behind.
No matter how late you sleep, Li Ka-shing's alarm clock will ring at 5: 59 in the morning. After getting up, listen to the radio news and play golf for an hour.
20 16 Li Ka-shing said, "I am willing to devote my time and energy to shareholders or foundations every day. For decades, I may be one of the people with the least sick leave in the company. "
A 90-year-old man, why do you spell it like this? Li Ka-shing's answer is: Diligence is the key to personal success. As the saying goes, no pains, no gains, and the rewards and achievements a person gets have a lot to do with his efforts. Luck is only a small factor, and personal efforts are the most basic conditions for creating a career.
Kazuo inamori's working experience of more than 70 years, the word "extremely serious" is indispensable.
Kazuo inamori's first job was in a company that made insulating porcelain bottles. At that time, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy and many employees left. At that time, kazuo inamori also thought about leaving his job, but he felt that he needed a legitimate reason to resign, so he stayed in the company and buried himself in his work.
He moved all the pots and pans into the laboratory, slept there day and night, even forgot to eat three meals a day, and devoted himself to the research work. He also subscribed to American professional magazines that published the latest papers on new ceramics, read while flipping through dictionaries, borrowed professional books from the library, and often seized the time in the evening or on the rest day after work to study and study eagerly. In the process of hard work, kazuo inamori has made outstanding scientific research achievements again and again, and at the same time, people around him have higher and higher evaluation of him, and his life has gradually started a virtuous circle.
After the company went public, he still demanded himself and his employees as a "struggler". "Return to the original intention of starting a business, even if it is sweaty and dusty, let's work together!"
Ma Mingzhe has always been diligent, both in study and in life. Thirty years ago, he began to learn from 26 English letters and recorded nearly 10,000 new concept English words on a small card. Later, bundles of cards filled a big paper basket. When traveling on business, he must bring English magazines or novels and listen to English financial reports when he has time. Ma Mingzhe always told himself that learning is endless, and diligence can make up for it.
After work, Ma Mingzhe worked harder. He said with a clear conscience: "There is no shortcut to success. Diligence is the simplest and most practical method. " . On average, he handles more than 500 emails every day, and his office hours during the day are usually full of various special meetings and important receptions. Most emails must be processed after work. Sometimes, if you are on a business trip or have an official reception at night, they will be processed after 10 in the afternoon. Ma Mingzhe said, especially important thing, he wrote reply email several times more than the content of the person asking for instructions.
These dependent entrepreneurs are workaholics, and many entrepreneurs take the word "diligence" as the standard: elon musk works more than 100 hours a week and is busy until 3 pm every day; I worked 16 hours a day and spent more than 200 days in the market. Lei Jun said in the talk show that a lunch is solved in three minutes at noon, and an average of eleven meetings are held every day; At the end of his life, Jobs was still trying to work overtime. ...
At the end of 20 16, "Wang Jianlin's Day" was circulated on the Internet. This schedule shocked many people: in 24 hours, two countries and three cities flew more than 6,000 kilometers and signed 50 billion contracts. ...
This is not a special day. This kind of work intensity is only a daily thing for Wang Jianlin.
If you don't travel, at 7: 30 in the morning, Wang Jianlin arrives at the office on the 25th floor of Wanda Beijing Headquarters on time and starts to work. This kind of work habit has persisted for more than 20 years since he started his business.
He is more combative now than before, and even wants to divide himself into several parts. On 20 12, I started running for an hour every day to maintain better physical strength and energy. He hopes to work until he is 75.
On 20 13, Wang Jianlin shared his entrepreneurial experience at the launching ceremony of "China Entrepreneurship Model" public welfare activity hosted by CCTV Financial Channel.
"How can we succeed in starting a business? I think diligence is the most important thing, which I have a deep understanding of. Because I am a demobilized soldier, I knew nothing about the real estate industry at the beginning of my business. Many colleagues laughed at me, and they commented on where I would go back and forth sooner or later. "
"So I made up my mind to study first. In the next four to five years, I gave up all my rest time, went to work normally during the day and spent all my nights studying. I believe that diligence can make up for it, and struggle can help us find opportunities and seize them. "
Each one is different, and behind it is the premise of persistence in extreme loneliness; Every honor is inseparable from day-to-day efforts. Behind every great entrepreneur, there is self-discipline and persistence that ordinary people can't imagine.
Get up at 5: 30, go to bed at 9: 00, 17 years of military life, let Wang Jianlin develop good living habits. Up to now, Wang Jianlin still keeps this habit. He gets up at 5: 30, and the thunder can't move.
In JD.COM, the morning meeting at 8: 30 has been a tradition for more than ten years. No matter how late the night before, even at two or three o'clock in the morning, Liu will sit in the conference room at 8: 30 the next morning and have a meeting with all the managers, unless he goes out for activities or business trips that morning.
"Diligence" has always been the label of Li Yanhong. From the time of reading, Li Yanhong knows the meaning of the word "diligence" better than his peers, and often stays in the library as a bookworm. After founding Baidu, he has always maintained a diligent style. At the summit dialogue forum of Chinese and foreign Internet leaders at the end of 20 14, Li Yanhong broke the news that he was awakened by the opportunity at 5: 00 every morning because there were too many opportunities to sleep.
Efforts have never been "swords and shadows" or "purgatory on earth". It is boring training and continuous output. If you are tired, you will "stick to it for a while" and more is execution.
Elon musk's employees commented on his work status: "Elon needs to see progress. With Elon, everyone must take the initiative to push the work and let the problem stop in your hands, which Elon cannot tolerate. " "Our discussion is efficient, to the point and based on factual arguments." "Work is blocked, or there is obstruction in issuing orders across departments. One of Elon's words was' If you have any questions, please call me at any time'. I don't care what the problem is, I want to solve it at once. "
Liang Jianzhang is very tough. The style of other leaders' meetings is "You two departments will discuss it after the meeting". Liang Jianzhang has never been like this. He wants to solve the problem on the spot.
Make a decision on the spot, implement it immediately, turn over a page, and forget the past. Cowardly people have their own cow force, but it is * * * that has execution.
Why don't entrepreneurs feel "painful, uncomfortable and uncomfortable" under high-intensity working conditions? Because for them, this kind of effort is a normal state, and they will not feel how great these are; They will not be moved by their "staying up all night". These efforts do not require psychological construction, self-persuasion, or willpower. These efforts are subconscious spontaneous behaviors and habitual actions of muscle memory.
Most people have worked hard: they have been passionate and determined to work hard, and they have had the experience of forging ahead and exporting strongly.
But the reason why mediocrity and Excellence are distinct is because the efforts of mediocrity are fragmented, unsystematic, stop-and-go and intermittent. Short-term efforts are false efforts. Hard work is not the key, but normalization is the key.